Portable screen house



Jan. .14, 1930. G. A. BAUMANN 1,743,308.'

PORTABLE SCREEN HOUSE Filed Aug. 28, 1928 :Fam-.2..

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Patented Jan. 14, 1930 UNITED STATES tresses PATENT oFFlcE PORTABLE SCREEN HOUSE Application led August 28, 1928. Serial No. 302,468.

This invention relates to structures in which a bed or similar resting support is arranged within a screened-E housing.

One of the objects of this invention is to U provide a screen housing for an individual resting bed or resting place.

Another object is to provide a mounting vstructure by which the housing is swingably supported.

Another object is to provide means on the supporting structure whereby the whole structure with the screen housing is made portable.

Another object is to provide means by which the housing'is swingably suspended from the supporting structure.

Another obj ect is to provide locking means whereby the swingable housing can be held in stationary position when suspended in the frame structure.

Another object is to provide slanting sides in the housing including hanging doors mounted in such a way that the doors can be opened at the bottom when not locked, so that a person may enter and leave the housing without material effort in handling the doors.

Another object is to provide inside and outside locking means for-the hanging doors.

Other objects will appear from the following description and appended claim as well as from the accompanying drawing, in which- Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a portable frame structure with a screen housing suspended from this frame structure, the front door being removed to show a bed inside of the housing according to this invention.

Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the housing with one end of the frame structure cut away on lines 2-2 of Fig. 1.

One of the principal features of this invention is to provide a screen house of portable form that may be used in a private home as well as in a Sanatorium, having in mind that in a Sanatorium patients have to be moved around a great deal for the comfort of the patients as well as to give the patients proper air and proper shade, or eventually sun during all of the day to follow the changes under which the advantage of the sunlight may be had.

As illustrated in the drawing, the house 3 is provided with a roof 4 mounted on top of upright end walls 5 and comparatively slanting side walls 6 and 7. All the walls are provided with a screen to admit air and sunlight from any direction.

Swinging sashes 8 are suspended on the upper edge on hinges or other similar suitable pivot' connection as indicated at 9 whereby the door hanging perpendicular provides a suitable opening in the lower part through which a person may pass in and out without material effort otherwise necessaryto move a door.

Locks or sliding bolts 10 and 11. are provided onv the outside and inside whereby the suspended doors maybe locked from the out side and from the inside.

The whole house 3 is suspended by chains 12 over a cross bar 13 in the upper end 14 of the end structures 15. The oppositely disposed end structures are interconnected at the bottom as indicated at 16 and are provided on the underside with castors 17 whereby the whole structure with the housing can be moved about to make this screen housing structure portable.

By the chains 12v the screen housing canswing back and forth between the uprights 15 so that a patient may be swung or may swing himself with very little effort.

To arrest the swinging movements a pawl 18 is pivotally connected to the end walls 5 of the housing, as indicated at 19. The pawl 18 is bifurcated to engage over the sides of the inner bracing 20 of the end structures 15 to lock the housing in stationary position within the frame structure. f

A holding hook 2l is provided on each of the end walls 5 whereby the pawl 18 can be Having thus described my invention, I claim:

A portable screen house embodying a frame structure consisting of a base including castors on its underside by which the frame structure can be moved about and uprights having a cross bar disposednear the upper terminationsv across the structure, a housing proper suspended from said cross bar byvflevxible means` the housing having slantingsides, sashes hingedly connected along the upper Y edges to the slanting sides of the housing so that the sashes allow a passing into and out of the housing when thesashes hang in aperpendicular manner on the hinges on the slanting sides of the housing, the sashes as well as the other sides of the housing being screened.- in to admit air and light from all sides,`rest ing` accommodations disnosedin the housing, pawls pivotallymounted on theopposite endsides. of the housing andhaving bifurcated ends ada-ptedto engage with certain partsof the frame structure whereby the housingcan be held against swinging movements within the frame structure, locking means on, the inside and outside of the sashes whereby the-sashes can be held lockedgwithin the slanting sides of the housing, and arcatch to hold the pawls inl disengaged position and adapted; to free the housing for swinging movements within the frame structure.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention-I have signedmy-name.

GUSTAV A. BAUMAN N. 

